Gregory Wasson, president of Walgreens Health Initiatives, which includes his company's mail-order business, insists that you don't get any real bargain ordering by mail.

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It was the house that was her work now: leafing through the piles of catalogues that came in the mail, marking them with Post-its, ordering sheets covered with dragons for Akash's room.

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And you can forget about mail-in cards -- you can handle all your ordering online.

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After ordering, he briefly switched out of vacation mode to check his e-mail on his phone.

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